It has been a fundamental, unalienable American right since 1791. Public safety and the Second Amendment can exist. However, there is most always an argument between gun control advocates and the ...

FACT: This common assertion assumes that modern guns have a fundamentally different nature than weapons that were available in 1791 when the Second Amendment was ratified and 1868 when the ...

Issues: (1) Whether the proper historical time period for ascertaining the Second Amendment’s original meaning as applied to the states is 1791, rather than 1868; and (2) whether “the people” must ...

9 —Josiah Quincy II, prominent spokesman for the Boston Sons of Liberty If the Second Amendment protects an ... today in the same place it did in 1791—in the body of the people trained to ...